world-weariness


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world-wea·ry

(wûrld′wîr′ē)
adj. world-wea·ri·er, world-wea·ri·est
Tired of or bored with life, often with a negative or jaded attitude.

world′-wea′ri·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.world-weariness - sadness on thinking about the evils of the worldworld-weariness - sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness
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Translations

world-weariness

[ˈwɜːldˈwɪərɪnɪs] Nhastío m
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Her songs and stories are imbued with an uncommon world-weariness seldom found in writers of such tender years.
Cardellini brings a steeliness and world-weariness to Anna, who was a cop's wife and is an urban social worker, both of which means she's already dealt with fear and horrors completely separate from the occult variety.
The story by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi pogo-sticks back and forth in time to let us know that Erin's world-weariness stems from an undercover operation 15 years ago that went wrong.
He also captures Marlowe's keen observations and courage, along with a world-weariness and cynicism that somehow mesh with his essential sense of hope." ADAMWOOG
Even if you grew up in a New York household amid reminders to bring a sweater and to eat more and relatives quipping at each other in Marx Brothers rejoinders full of reversals and coded obscenity and deep down a sort of world-weariness, there is still a good chance you missed their 1946 film A Night in Casablanca.
Because, while perhaps too young to fully embody the weighty world-weariness of the role that first time round, the 80-year-old Oscar winner showed he now has the requisite aged vulnerability in spades.
Hugh Jackman plays action hero with world-weariness, for an ailing Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) far from prying eyes.
The prospect of being without work in addition to this general malaise of world-weariness causes people to look for radical solutions.
The real gripe, of course, is what the videos reveal about major players in the supplying and purchasing of fetal body parts, principally Planned Parenthood and representatives from "Tissue Procurement Organizations" (TPOs), As NRL News Today discussed on many occasions, your stomach turns as you hear the participants cavalierly talk about baby parts and the demand for particular organs, all in a manner that alternates between pretend world-weariness with giggles.
Blunt is world-weariness personified-she's both appalling and pitiful as the self-destructive Rachel.
Most of the girls agree: 'I wouldn't want to fall in love because of all the germs in kissing', but one young man remarks with all the world-weariness of Leonardo Di Caprio at a supermodel party: 'I don't like first dates, they're awkward.' This is cute without being sickly, and there's a real innocence that's charming to see.
But he has all the fatalistic world-weariness of the original and manages to make a selfish, unpleasant man into a strangely sympathetic character, the sole voice of sanity in the madhouse.